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Posts Tagged: Australia

  • July 30, 2013

    Youth of Australia

    BY Lucas Habte

    Teenage is making its Australian premiere this week with three screenings at the Melbourne International Film Festival.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • January 31, 2013

    Career Girl Romances

    BY Alexa Meyerowitz

    Career Girl Romances was an Australian teen romance comic series produced during the ’60s and ’70s, highlighting the life and times of women who selflessly sacrificed their pursuit of careers in favour of a lifetime of love and happiness.

    FROM:Teen Reads

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  • December 31, 2012

    K-Mart Ads

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Australian teen-centric fashion mag, Dolly was chock full of fashion, advice, knowledge and advertisements (duh).

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • December 26, 2012

    Nicole Kidman, age 16

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Shock of red–a very young Nicole Kidman in 1983–poses for a fashion spread in Dolly, the Australian teen-centric fashion mag.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • December 3, 2012

    That Was The Summer That Changed My Life

    BY zoe coombs marr

    1997, NSW, Australia, the day after my thirteenth birthday.

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • July 6, 2012

    Approximately Panther

    BY Alexa Meyerowitz

    Approximately Panther was an Australian ABC investigation into youth culture and fashion, produced in 1967.

    FROM:Tube Time

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  • June 29, 2012

    Everybody’s Gone Surfin’

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Surfin’ Aust-ral-ia. Right? Australia is outlined in beaches.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • September 12, 2011

    Abracadabra Dept. Presents: Teen Tidy

    BY Kate Jinx

    The 1977 book Bright Ideas is earnest as Amy Sedaris’ Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People is tongue-in-cheek.

    FROM:Teen Reads

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  • April 14, 2011

    Abracadabra Dept Presents: Sharpies & Brushes

    BY Kate Jinx

    Photograph by Rennie Ellis, 1973

    When there were teddy boys and girls in England, the Australian counterpart were known as Bodgies and Widgies and when English kids began switching from mod to skin, blue-collar Melbournians rose up as Sharpies.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • March 13, 2011

    Been Caught

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Vera Purcell led a group of two other teenage girls, aged 14 and 17, who stole a large quantity of clothing from a Darlinghurst house.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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